Sustainable rural development depends on a multidimensional process based the interaction of economic, cultural, social, environmental, and political subsystems. Many studies have ascribed extensive livestock systems potential role in sustainable development. Sheep farming Europe involves meat or dairy breeds that produce coarse wool unsuitable for textile use. Coarse has been historically used...

Dairy sheep farming is a significant agricultural sector in Mediterranean countries, providing income and employment opportunities less-favoured areas (LFAs). The economic performance of dairy farms interest to LFAs. However, relevant literature scarce. objectives here were evaluate the LFAs Greece perform comparative analysis based on flock size system. In total, 19 26 for two production perio...

Yogurt is one of the most popular fermented dairy products and an excellent medium for new ingredients/food source. This study sought to evaluate characterize bovine milk (BM) sheep (SM) yogurt made from milk, BM:SM mixture with respective 100:0 fractions: 75:25, 50:50, 25:75 0:100, their influence on physicochemical parameters, antioxidant, protein profile, microstructure color analysis yogurt...

Pavlata L. , A. Pechová, J . I l lek: Muscular Dystrophy in Dairy Cows Following a Change in Housing Technology. Acta Vet. Brno 2001, 70: 269–275. The objective of the study was to monitor the state of health (in particular damage to muscular tissues) in dairy cows suffering from a marked selenium deficiency. The investigations were conducted in a herd of Bohemian Red Pied cattle at the time of...

Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) of 13 antimicrobial agents were determined by broth microdilution for 72 Campylobacter jejuni strains from livestock. Twenty-three (31.9%) isolates were fully susceptible; all isolates were susceptible to erythromycin, chloramphenicol, streptomycin, gentamicin, sulfamethoxazole, and meropenem, and all but one to kanamycin. Resistance to quinolones was hig...

Mertens (1997) defined physically effective NDF (peNDF) as the fraction of NDF that stimulated chewing and contributed to a ruminal digesta mat. He also proposed a standard laboratory method for measuring peNDF that involved dry sieving and measuring the fraction of sample NDF retained on the ≥1.18-mm sieve. This large particle pool requires rumination and has a high resistance to escape from t...

Swine manure slurries were ozonated at a dosage of 1 g/L and tested for their toxicity to the house fly (Musca domestica). The observed toxicity of ozonated swine manure was consistent and independent of origin of the swine manure. A dose (dilution) response curve was performed. A 50% dilution in the ozonated swine manure slurry resulted in 90% reduction in toxicity. Neither the synthetic nor o...

The study was conducted to develop and evaluate an Indirect Hemagglutination Antibody Test (IHAT) for the serological diagnosis of Cysticercus bovis in live animals. IHAT was set-up inhouse and used to test serum samples of cattle against sheep red blood cell (SRBC) coated with crude extracts of C. bovis cyst. Serum samples for screening were collected from Addis Ababa abattoir (n=522), a dairy...

Normal physiological values of different blood parameters for various animals are influenced by a number of factors such as age, sex, breed, season, altitude, climatic conditions, nutrition and life habits of the species [4,6,9,19]. It has been reported that the significant differences (p < 0.001) in glucose, total lipid, cholesterol, total protein, uric acid and calcium levels were found betwe...

Since the discovery of leptin secreted from adipocytes, specialized tissues and cells have been found that secrete the several peptides (or cytokines) that are characterized to negatively and positively regulate the metabolic process. Different types of adipokines, hepatokines, and myokines, which act as cytokines, are secreted from adipose, liver, and muscle tissue, respectively, and have been...